Horses, cats, badgers and burgers: The Top 10 Weird Political Scandal Props
Tweet There is a particular type of news story which British politics alone produces. Maybe it’s to do with our politicians, our media or our national sense of humour, but it’s undeniable that...
View ArticleThe curse of the Miliband Mix-up, episode 329
Tweet This blog has long followed the Great Mili Mix-up, the tendency of even the most accomplished commentators to mix up David and Ed Miliband, almost as if the universe itself is trying to set...
View ArticleJowell’s office goes off message on the NHS
Tweet Labour are running a concerted “Drop the Bill” campaign against the Health and Social Care Bill. In today’s PMQs, David Cameron cast it as an attempt to save Ed Miliband’s leadership rather than...
View ArticleEd Miliband struck by the curse of the anti-mojo
Tweet The success or failure of political campaigns rests on a lot of different factors. Many of them are solid things – do you raise enough money? Do your team work harder than the other side? Are...
View ArticleThe Ed/David Media Mili-Mix-Up Part III
Tweet Despite the big impact he’s generally recognised to have made on the hacking issue over the last fortnight, it seems Ed Miliband is still having some serious recognition issues even among the...
View ArticleEd Miliband trapped in a Final Destination film
Tweet In the Final Destination films, whenever someone cheats death the universe immediately starts trying to correct their lucky escape by killing them off. It know seems increasingly likely that...
View ArticleProfiling Ed Balls’ personality through his pig doodle
Tweet There’s a simple personality profiling test called the Pig Test. You draw a doodle of a pig, and the way you do so is used to give a sketch outline of your personality type. (If you want to take...
View ArticleEd who?
Tweet John Humphrys must be a bit embarrassed by his Mili-mix-up on the Today programme this morning, ending his interview with the Labour leader by calling him “David Miliband”. But Humph shouldn’t...
View ArticleEd Balls – from Green Tax Crusader to Jeremy Clarkson
Tweet Ed Balls has evidently decided that hammering the Coalition on rising fuel duty and the double-tax on fuel through VAT is the right way to go. Politically, it’s a clever choice – the levels of...
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